User:WhatamIdoing/Awards

Award for amazing editing




HIV TEST

 * It's possible that the above award will be my all-time favorite: the only deeply sarcastic barnstar I expect to get!
 * The editor in question had copied and pasted (after alphabetizing and partly wikifying) a long, detailed, fully sourced list of AIDS denialist information off of a copyrighted website. The information wasn't acceptable for reasons of reliable sourcing, improper attribution, original research and massive due weight problems, but the copyvio is troubling, too.  He was called on his copyvio garbage repeatedly on the article's talk pages, but he brushed off these serious concerns with simplistic denials:  Of course he didn't copy it from anywhere.  He just happened to type up a list with the same sixty-five items using exactly the same words with exactly the same typos and exactly the same sixty-four sources in exactly the same order as the original copyrighted page.  (A side-by-side comparison of the lists is in my sandbox.)  This was a major copyright violation by an editor with only a moderate amount of experience, so even though a couple of weeks had passed since the dispute in the article had simmered down, I decided to leave a friendly note on his talk page to discourage any further stupidity around WP:COPYVIO.
 * I received a not entirely unexpected bland denial, which I responded to rather more pointedly.
 * The editor's response was to blank my messages from his user talk page and to leave me this barnstar, which was (delightfully) another copy-and-paste modification of someone else's work! He even left in nearly all of WLU's sig (see the immediately preceding barnstar), which has since been corrected for him.
 * I conclude, for the sociologically minded, that the editor in question comes from a shame culture instead of a sin culture; therefore, it's better to steal and endlessly lie about it than to steal and confess when you're faced with embarrassingly incontrovertible evidence of your crime. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:10, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks!


JFW | T@lk  09:26, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

The Encephalon Cross
About time you got one of these. -- Colin°Talk 20:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

&larr; image base puns? - 2/0 (cont.) 01:37, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Precious
  magic tools

Thank you, user with an annoyingly high Intelligence Quotient, for quality articles contributions in MED, VE support, precise language, and for speaking edit summaries, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:16, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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Thanks again :) -- Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 03:59, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 02:54, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you. Perhaps it might do some good. WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:11, 19 August 2023 (UTC)